Inseam measuring apparatus



Nov. 7, 1939. J. TURPAN INSEAM MEASURING APPARATUS Filed Jan. 22, 1938INVENTOR, Ja. me: TMYPMYL,

ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 7, 1939 INSEAM-MIEASURING APPARATUS James Turpan,Paterson, N. J.

Application January 22, 1938, Serial'No. 186,277

3 Claims.

This invention relates to apparatus for taking certain verticalmeasurements in respect to garments, as the inseam measurement of acustomer when being fitted with a pair of trousers. Its principalobjects is so to construct the apparatus when the garment is to hang aspecified distance from the floor or other level that allowance may betaken for that condition in calculating the length of the garment. Forinstance, certain individuals require their trousers toreach quite tosaid level, whereas others require that they should reach to an extentmore or less abovesaid level. As herein shown the apparatus follows thegeneral construction of that set forth in my application Serial No.155,357, which has matured into Patent Serial Number 2,126,517, but itinvolves a certain improvement therein in accordance with another objectof this invention.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the apparatus, with both plungers raised;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary front elevation, partly broken away and partlyin section and with the front panel removed;

Figs. 3 and 4 are sections on lines 33 and i4, respectively, of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a front-to-rear section of the lower end portion of thegage-plunger; and

Fig. 6 is a section on line 6-5, Fig. 1.

An upright supporting structure is here formed as follows: I designatesa rectangular base to which are doweled, as at 2, two upright panels 3in face-to-face contact with each other and having pairs of verticalgrooves opposed to each other and forming guideways and 5. The panelsmay be doweled together at 6 but preferably they and the base are gluedtogether. One groove of guideway d is to receive the gage-plunger and ithas a countergroove l in which is secured a corrugated strip 8 whosecorrugations are here onehalf an inch apart. In the other groove of thisguideway 5 and near the top of the same is a stud 9. Secured to onepanel, as by a staple W, is the cylindrical guide H for a detent l2which may enter the other guideway 5 and which, between its shoulder 52aand the shell, penetrates a spiral spring [3 urging the detent inwardly;the detent is in the plane between the panels, whose adjoining faces maybe cut away to receive it, and the handle or outer end of the plungerprotrudes.

In the guideway 4 is slidable a rod l4 which forms the stem of thegage-plunger including a cross-bar l5 fixed to the upper end of the rodand preferably also including the following parts: An arm or extensionmember 86 penetrated by a thumb-screw l'l arranged in a slot 12a nearoneend of the cross-bar; a stud [8 on the cross-bar to be received by theforked end 16b of the arm when the latter is elevated and alined withthe cross-bar; and a stud i9 and a pointer 20 at the other end of thecross-bar. In the lower end portion of the rod I4 is inset a socket 21which guides a detent 22 normally held protruding from the rod by aspring 23 interposed between the head shown at the outer end of thedetent and the socket. This detent engages the corrugated strip 8. Inthe opposite side of this rod is a vertical groove 2 which receives thestud 9 and terminates short of the lower end of the rod so that the studlimits the upward movement of the latter.

In the guideway 5 is slidable a rod 25 which forms the scale-plunger.The cross-bar of the gage-plunger lies in the same plane as the scaleplunger and its end having the stud I9 and pointer 28 closely adjoinsthe latter, the pointer lapping the scale-plunger and the stud engagingin a vertical groove 26 in such plunger and thus confining the pointerclose to the same. That face of the scale-plunger which the pointer lapsis provided with graduated scales as follows:

At a: is a line which, when it registers with a pointer y, here taken asthe juncture between the side of plunger 25 and the curved top surfaceof the supporting structure, is a given distance from the level on whichthe customer stands. This line is the lowest of the lines of a graduatedmeasurement scale having the lines above line .1: numbered 23, 24, etc.,upwardly. Below this scale is a graduated allowance scale whose linesare numbered 1, 1 etc., downwardly. The lines of the first scale arehere one inch and of the second scale one-half inch apart. In theplunger 25 is a notch 21 to receive detent l2 when line 33 registerswith pointer y, and below this notch is a series of notches 28 spaced asa series from notch 27 the same as line a: from the allowance scale andspaced apart the same as the lines of such scale.

Combined with the supporting structure we thus have means to determinethe measurement which is movable vertically upwardly and guided by saidstructure and has a vertically graduated measurement scale and. includesa vertical plunger (as 25), and the structure and plunger have 00-operative means (l2 and 21-28) to hold the plunger at any of differentelevations, one of them (here the plunger 25) having the allowance scaleand the other the pointer (as y) coactive with such scale to indicatethe allowance at which the plunger is held. In this example themeasurement scale is actually on the plunger 25 rather than plunger l4;and plunger [4 is of course present to aid in determining themeasurement by cooperating with the plunger 25. But these conditions arenot indispensable in the broad aspect of the invention.

Suppose the customer requires his trousers to hang to the floor. Thescale-plunger is held, by engagement of detent l2 with notch 21, so thatline a: registers with pointer 11. The gage plunger, which he straddles,is then raised to his crotch, its pointer indicating the measurement onthe measurement scale. If the trousers are to hang a given distance fromthe floor, say one inch, the scale-plunger is held, by engagement ofdetent [2 with the topmost notch 28, and the gage-plunger operated asbefore.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

1. An apparatus for the purpose described including supporting structureand a vertical scaleplunger and a vertical gage-plunger each verticallymovable upwardly in and guided by said structure and the scale-plungerhaving a vertically graduated measurement scale and the gageplunger apointer coactive with said scale, said structure and the scale-plungerhaving cooperative means to hold the latter at any of differentelevations and one of them having a vertical allowance scale and theother a pointer coactive with the allowance scale to indicate theelevation at which the scale plunger is held.

2. In combination, supporting structure including a base and a pair ofupright panels arranged in face to face contact with each other andhaving their lower ends conforming to a common plane'and abutting thebase, said panels being secured together and to the base and formingbetween them a pair of vertical guideways, and a pair of plungers in therespective guideways, one plunger having a vertically graduated scaleand the other a pointer in proximity to and cooperative with the firstplunger.

3. Apparatus for the purpose described including a fixed structure, ascale plunger movable up and down and guided by said structure andhaving up-and-doWn-extending scales arranged one above the other and theupper one of which reads upwardly and the lower one reads downwardly,said structure having a pointer arranged to coact with the lower scale,and a gauge plunger movable up and down and guided by such structure andhaving a pointer projecting into proximity to the scale plunger andcoactive with the upper scale.

JAlVIES TURPAN.

